Personal Life
William Harris Crawford was descended from John Crawford (1600-1676) who had come to Virginia in 1643, John Crawford died taking part in Bacon’s Rebellion. John’s son David Crawford, I (1625-1698) was the father of David Crawford, II (1662-1762) and the grandfather of David Crawford, III (1697-1766). David Crawford, III married Ann Anderson in 1727 and had 13 children including Joel Crawford (1736-1788).
William Harris Crawford was born in Amherst County, Virginia the sixth of eleven children born to Joel Crawford and Fanny Harris Crawford. Crawford's family moved south to the village of Appling in Columbia County, Georgia, when he was a boy. As a young man, he worked as a farmer and a schoolteacher for about 10 years, then began to practice law in Lexington, Georgia, in 1799.
His cousin George W. Crawford served as Secretary of War under President Zachary Taylor.
Crawford is buried at the site of his home, about one-half mile west of the current Crawford city limit.
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